Sunday, March 22, 2020: National Women's Month: Heather Schubert's poems "Wound Tight", "Woman", and "Insomnia"

Wound Tight

All tied up in knots

A yarn ball of raw emotions

Wound tight

Spun strong

Cork stopped

Waiting to burst

Erupt in a single fashion

Of colors and dye lots

Shades of blues and greens

Spilling emotions

Onto the blank pages of my mind

I dip my brush into those watery hues

And glide free.

© 2020 Heather Schubert

(Previously published in the anthology called Little Letters on the Skin, published as a partnership between the Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers Reading Series and The Liminal Writing Center.)

Woman

Red paint drips

From stained glass lips.

Cracked, broken and shattered

Sapphire eyes like

Swallowed jewels

We cry,

Into the deep well

Of a bottomless soul.

Gouged out through cages made of ribs.

Hanging on by the skin of reality’s teeth.

One breath left,

To tip,

Woman over the edge.

Divinity beyond design.

Then, in the end,

Her heart stops her dead.

© 2020 Heather Schubert

                                                    Pinky on Detroit Ave by Marie C Lecrivain

                                                         

Insomnia

It’s 3 am in my ancient digital land.

How can I lose myself,

When GPS won’t let me?

Social medial festers.

Yet I’m alone,

Though everyone knows my name,

Tweets my pics and likes my page.

I want to understand

What glues me together

And what sets me apart.

Demons swell in my throat.

As words shoot straight from my soul

Things you won’t find on Google, MSN or Bing.

But the internet won’t let me forget,

No matter how hard I try.

That I’m just a carbon copy,

No better than a lie.

© 2020 Heather Schubert

Bio: Heather Schubert was a writer in residence at the Liminal Writing Center. Her poems, articles and other writing have been published in a variety of books, newsletters and magazines for the past 25 years as well as online as part of an anthology series. She has an essay and poems in the anthology Little Letters on the Skin, which is a collaboration between the Bay Area Women’s Cleave and The Liminal Writing Center, and can be found on Amazon.com. She is currently working on volume two of the Daughter’s of Babalon Anthology series, a collaboration of collected poems by Aleister Crowley and a book that delves into the spiritual aspects of orgasmic birth. Daughters of Babalon Volume One can be found online at Lulu.com. She is also a visual artist who works in various mediums and has an online store, LittleBeastlings.com